Why People Break Up for the Same Reason They Fall in Love
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It goes from “He’s so funny!” to “He thinks everything is a joke.” Or, “She’s so interesting!” to “She won’t shut up.” Do people turn into someone we don’t like the more we date them? Or were they always that way and we just never realized? Or maybe we did realize but we thought it wouldn’t have been such a big issue? Or, unconsciously, we’re actually attracted to what disgusts us? Night in the City by Jack Vettriano OBE, 1998 The crush You meet him at a friend’s dinner. He’s someone’s plus-one. You briefly exchange some biographical basics — where you’re from, your relation to the…
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